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Main Job Purpose:
The role provides finance leadership across a portfolio of Modern Trade customers and channels, partnering closely with Customer Development teams to drive growth, profitability, and investment effectiveness. The incumbent leads performance management and commercial decision support for complex business priorities while ensuring strong governance over customer investments and trade spend.
The role is expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, independently leading key business discussions, shaping recommendations, and coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
What Will Your Main Responsibilities Be:
Drive Performance Management and Financial Stewardship of CD Spends
Lead performance management for assigned channels and customer portfolios, ensuring delivery of financial commitments.
Own financial forecasting, budget management, risk identification, and action planning.
Challenge assumptions and drive interventions to address gaps versus plan.
Ensure strong governance and compliance with customer agreements and investment framework.
Lead Business Partnering on Strategic Priorities
Mastery of financial impact of TTA per customer for the assigned channels and customers
Serve as the lead finance partner for priority customer initiatives.
Lead financial evaluation of customer negotiations, investment proposals, and contract changes.
Influence commercial decisions through actionable insights and clear recommendations.
Partner with senior stakeholders to balance growth ambitions and profitability objectives.
Drive Performance Improvement
Identify and lead initiatives to improve customer profitability and investment ROI
Lead CD finance in cross-functional problem-solving on emerging business risks and opportunities.
Champion continuous improvement in financial analysis, reporting, and decision-making processes.
What Success in This Role Looks Like:
Acts as a trusted finance advisor to customer and channel leadership.
Independently manages complex commercial decisions and business interventions.
Delivers high-quality analyses and recommendations that influence business outcomes.
Coaches others and elevates overall team capability.
Creates capacity for the CD Finance Lead by owning larger customer portfolios and more complex business issues.
Experiences & Qualifications
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED
At least 7+ years of experience in Finance
Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex analyses and business discussions.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Experience coaching team members or leading cross-functional projects preferred.
Strong commercial acumen, analytical capability, and bias for action.
Comfortable managing multiple customers and priorities in a fast-paced, lean environment
Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.
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Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.